It has probably been a year since I started longing to get me a macro lens. It’s rather luxurious to get a lens just to take pretty pictures without having a job that motivates it. Now that I have it I could shoot jewelry, but it’s not like anybody has asked me.

I have waited for economy to allow a purchase and also a brand new macro that Panasonic are releasing shortly. Since the system debuted there has been a 45 mm that Panasonic made together with Leica. Good, but expensive. Now there’s a cheaper 30 mm coming and I wanted to know more about it before making my decision. The first reviews are in and it seems there’s not a big difference in image quality. The new one lacks a lens hood and you can’t buy one later. It lacks a limiter for the focus area, but it’s smaller and lighter.

Macro is the ability to capture an object in a scale of 1:1. With the cheaper lens that means you have to get much closer to achieve it, and that’s what made me buy the old one. If you’re shooting bugs and bees, I like to keep my distance. There is also the matter of shading.

Here I started with a few classic motifs, a bee, some very small flowers and a rose bud from last season.

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